The CBT presented to the Board of Auckland Transport on rail to Auckland airport. We made the following points in this “one pager”. 1. In our view the Jacobs “SMART Indicative Business Case” report underestimates the potential catchment of heavy rail, we assume because of the arbitrary requirement for a […]
Airport-CBD link
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Our AGM this year features a special guest in the form of Pete Clark from Auckland Transport, who has kindly offered to present the latest on rail to Auckland Airport. Monday 20th July, 7:30pm Richmond Road Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road Grey Lynn Rail to the airport has been a […]
Concerned at the complete lack of progress in designating a rail corridor from Onehunga to Auckland Airport and continuing back to Wiri, the CBT wrote to Mayor Len Brown suggesting Manukau City start to look into it. Mayor Brown has responded, indicating that a Memorandum of Understanding is being prepared […]
Brian Rudman writes in today’s New Zealand Herald: The Government’s antipathy to embracing new Auckland public transport projects has made the debate over a rail link to Auckland International Airport rather academic. Which makes it rather surprising that the airport company should be so sensitive about a recent Metro article’s […]
Graeme Hunt reports in the Herald on the need for a dedicated link between the CBD and Auckland Airport. Unfortunately the focus is once again on completing the roading network. We are told that rail is enormously expensive and that Auckland Airport has ruled it out in the short to […]
A petition calling for a rail link from Britomart to Auckland Airport will be presented to the ARC tomorrow. Petition organisers the Campaign for Better Transport have collected over 10,000 signatures in a little over four months. Over 2,000 of those signatures came from the campaign’s website www.bettertransport.org.nz. “Having spoken […]